At least according to the series' author, Ursula K. Le Guin. What would she know about the books, though...

On Tuesday night, the Sci Fi Channel aired its final installment of Legend of Earthsea, the miniseries based—loosely, as it turns out—on my Earthsea books. The books, A Wizard of Earthsea and The Tombs of Atuan, which were published more than 30 years ago, are about two young people finding out what their power, their freedom, and their responsibilities are. I don't know what the film is about. It's full of scenes from the story, arranged differently, in an entirely different plot, so that they make no sense. My protagonist is Ged, a boy with red-brown skin. In the film, he's a petulant white kid. Readers who've been wondering why I "let them change the story" may find some answers here.

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It's been about a decade since I read the Earthsea series -- a substantial portion of my life -- so I don't entirely remember the books to be honest. That having been said, it's disappointing to hear that Le Guin -- a resident of Portland, Oregon -- was all but shut out of the creative process in the SciFi miniseries based on her works. I had planned on watching the series (I evidently forgot to), but I probably won't watch it in reruns now.